Rampage Shootings and Gun Control

Hurka, Steffen (11. Mai 2017): Rampage Shootings and Gun Control. Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe. 1st Edition. Abingdon, Oxford; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Abstract

The author sets out to unravel the factors that facilitate or impede the access of gun control to the political agenda in the wake of rampage shootings and analyses why some political debates lead to profound shifts of the policy status quo, while others peter out without any legislative reactions. In so doing, the book not only contributes to the theoretical literature on crisis-induced policy making, but also provides a wealth of case-study evidence on rampage shootings as empirical phenomena. In particular, the extent to which gun control gets politicized as a policy failure can either result from a bottom-up process (event severity and media pressure) or from a top-down logic (issue ownership and the electoral cycle). Including 12 case studies on the rampage shootings which have triggered a debate over the appropriateness of the affected countries´ gun policies, it illustrates that the way political processes unfold after rampage shootings depends strongly on specific causal configurations and draws comparisons between the cases covered in the book and the way rampage shootings are typically dealt with in the United States.

• Dokumententyp: Monographie
• Keywords: Rampage Shootings; Politicization; Policy Change; Public Policy; Policy Stability; Political Impact
• Fakultät: Sozialwissenschaften > Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politik
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63043-7; 978-1-315-20942-5
• Ort: Abingdon, Oxford; New York
• Sprache: Englisch